Shubham Phal
Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolShubham Phal is a Senior Research Engineer at DeepMind in Mountain View with eight years of experience building and shipping 0→1 AI products and research systems. He’s served as tech lead across multimodal alignment, model behavior, and education-focused initiatives for the Gemini family, driving projects like LearnLM, Ask YouTube, HallMate, and the cross-org Project Astra Tutor that were demoed at Google I/O. Comfortable as an individual contributor who still codes, he combines hands-on RL and multimodal research with program-level coordination—once rallying 100+ contributors to deliver a tutor product in ~4 months. His background spans applied research internships (Microsoft Research, Amazon) and an MS from Carnegie Mellon, where he contributed to top-ranked dialog systems for the Alexa Prize. Now in DeepMind’s AGI Alignment team, he’s developing new RL algorithms for reasoning over images and audio while translating research into real-world AI tutors and learning tools.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at R. V. College of Engineering, BangaloreMS Computational Data Science, School of Computer Science, MS Computational Data Science, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Konkani, Marathi, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
chainer9
text-to-speech9
speech-synthesis9
speech9
speech-to-text8
android-widget8
kaldi8
voice-conversion8
speech-enhancement8
pytorch8
machine-translation8
speaker-diarization8
speech-processing8
anychart7
android-view7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
premalsingh/rvceconnect
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
RVCE Connect App source code.
Contributions:31 commits, 22 pushes in 2 months
android
shubhamphal/cloud_project1
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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